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Arguineguín | Gran Canaria

I was in Gran Canaria for a week in the beginning of May. We were staying in Arguineguín in the south of Gran Canaria, but also visited Las Palmas, Palmitos Park in Maspalomas and Puerto de Mogán. I'll divide each of those places into their own posts. We also wanted to go hiking, for example in Roque Nublo area and on the sand dunes in Maspalomas, but this trip didn't go exactly as planned...Olin toukokuun alussa viikon matkalla Gran Canarialla. Matkakohteemme oli Arguineguín saaren eteläpuolella, mutta kävimme myös Las Palmasissa, Palmitos Parkissa Maspalomasissa ja Puerto de Mogánissa. Jaan ne kaikki omiksi postauksikseen. Halusimme myös mennä vaellukselle esimerkiksi Roque Nublon alueelle ja Maspalomasin hiekkadyyneille, mutta matka ei mennyt ihan suunnitelmien mukaan...

First of all, since our trip was so late in the spring, the travel
agency didn't offer organized hiking trips anymore. Now the best way to get to the
hiking routes in the middle of the island is to rent a car,
but neither me nor my mother, who I was traveling with, wanted to drive
those narrow, crooked, mountain roads. The bus connections in Gran
Canaria are quite good -- except to these hiking routes. So we gave up
on that hiking plan.The next problem was that I spent
some of the already short vacation being ill. I've traveled to Egypt 4
times but I've never been as sick on a trip as I was in Gran Canaria. So
we spent one day mostly inside (except for a walk to the pharmacy) and
after that I was ok in the mornings but still felt ill and tired towards
the afternoon and evening. After the trip it turned out it wasn't just
any stomach flu, but something else on top of that. 24 hours after I
got home, I got chickenpox which explained the nausea and tiredness for a
week before that. And I can tell you that having chickenpox as and
adult is not fun. But that's a different story. The point is we had to
cut out some of the program we had planned for the trip. Ensinnäkin matkamme ajoittui niin myöhään keväälle, ettei
matkatoimisto enää järjestänyt vaellusretkiä. Jos ei lähde järjestetylle
vaellusretkelle, saaren keskiosan vuoristoalueiden
vaellusreiteille on helpointa päästä vuokraamalla auto. Kumpikaan meistä
(olin matkalla äitini kanssa) ei kuitenkaan halunnut ajaa kapeita,
mutkittelevia vuoristoteitä. Gran Canarian bussiyhteydet ovat
periaatteessa hyvät -- paitsi näille vaellusreiteille. Joten hautasimme
vaellusretkiajatuksen. Seuraava ongelma oli se, että olin muutenkin lyhyestä matkasta osan sairaana. Olen matkustanut esim. Egyptiin neljästi, mutta en ole koskaan ollut millään matkalla yhtä kipeä kuin Gran Canariassa. Yksi päivä meni sisätiloissa lukuunottamatta kävelyä apteekkiin. Sen jälkeen aamuisin oli terveempi olo, mutta pahoinvointi, väsymys jne. pahenivat aina iltapäivällä. Matkan jälkeen selvisi, ettei syynä ollut pelkkä vatsatauti. 24 tuntia kotiinpaluun jälkeen sain vielä vesirokon. Se selittikin lähes viikon kestäneen pahoinvoinnin ja väsymyksen. Ja vesirokon sairastaminen aikuisena ei muuten ole hauskaa, mutta se on jo eri tarina. Pääasia oli siis se, että matkan ohjelmaa piti vähän karsia.

On
to Arguineguín. We stayed at the Sunwing hotel. The best part of the
hotel was probably the exercise classes and possibilities it offers:
zumba, core, water aerobics in the pool outside... Well, those were the only ones I managed
to try out before I got sick on the third evening. We paid for breakfast
at the hotel (in advance), but otherwise bought our food at the grocery
store (there's a Spar in walking distance from Sunwing) and cooked it in the
room. And frankly, the breakfast at the hotel cost more than all our
other meals so it probably wasn't worth it. There's no beach exactly
where the hotel is but there are beaches when you walk in either
direction. The nicest one is Anfi, which has white sand.

As for
shopping, we visited the Tuesday market, which was almost identical to
the Friday market in Puerto de Mogán. We didn't spend much time for
shopping (other than for food) on the trip, but one surprising shop in
Arguineguín was Happy Shopping that sold just about everything. Clothes,
crafts supplies, stationary, make-up, hardware, home decor... I'll show
the few things I bought in a separate post.

About public transport in Gran Canaria. It's easy to move between the cities by
bus. You can find the schedules and prices in Glubalsu.net. The bus
numbers and prices might or might not be correct, though. The bus we
took to Puerto de Mogán was in time and cost 2.20 euros per person as it
was supposed to. The bus to Palmitos Park was 3.60 euros instead of the
2.95 it was supposed to be. And the bus that was supposed to go to Las
Palmas didn't take any passengers, but a different bus (not mentioned
even in the bus stop schedule and so full I had to stand till we got to
the airport) did some minutes later. The price was still 6.80 euros as
mentioned online.I was very careful through most of
the trip to not get sunburn. Until the last day that is. The flight was
in the evening but we had to leave our suitcases in the morning and
check out of the room by noon. Because of the "no liquids on flight" rule, I
was thinking should I keep the sunscreen with me for the day and then
just leave it behind or pack it in the suitcase in the morning. ...I was
stupid enough to pack it in the suitcase. Do I even need to say I got
badly sunburn during the day (even though I was in the shade all the
time unless I was swimming in the pool)? The night flight home was
pretty painful. All the aloe vera creams (that would be good for calming
sunburn skin) we bought were obviously in the suitcases as well.Vähän julkisilla kulkemisesta Gran Canarialla. kaupunkien väliset
bussiyhteydet ovat hyvät, aikataulut ja hinnat löytyvät Globalsu:n nettisivuilta. Bussinumerot ja hinnat eivät kuitenkaan välttämättä pidä
paikkaansa. Bussi Puerto de Mogániin meni kyllä ajallaan ja hinta oli
2,20 e per henkilö niin kuin sen pitikin olla. Bussimatka Palmitos
Parkkiin taas oli kalliimpi kuin Globalsun nettisivujen mukaan ja
sivujen mukaiseen Las Palmasin bussiin ei päässyt edes sisälle. Sinne
meni sen sijaan vähän myöhemmin tullut eri numerolla varustettu bussi
(joka oli niin täynnä, että yli puolet matkasta piti seistä). Yritin koko matkan ajan olla palamatta auringossa, mutta viimeisenä päivänä mokasin. Lento lähti vasta illalla, mutta matkalaukut piti jättää jo aamulla ja huoneesta piti lähteä keskipäivällä. Nestesääntöjen vuoksi mietin, pidänkö auringonsuojavoiteen mukani koko päivän ja jätän sen sitten jonnekin tai heitän roskiin ennen lentoa vai pakkaanko matkalaukkuun aamulla. ...Valitettavasti olin niin tyhmä, että pakkasin sen matkalaukkuun. Olin kyllä suurimman osan päivästä varjossa (paitsi silloin kun kävin uimassa), mutta paloin kuitenkin aika pahasti. Lentomatka kotiin oli kivulias. Aloe vera -voiteetkin olivat visusti siellä matkalaukuissa, ettei niistä saanut apua.

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